The kind of values for which I was supposed to kill, such as democracy and national independence, were better served, I thought, through non-violent action.

We can be certain that, if there are conflicting views in different cultures, some of these views must be false. This may help us to transcend our own narrow cultural horizon.

One way of submitting your moral intuitions in relation to some issue to cognitive therapy is to learn more about how people in other cultures think about it.

It is obvious that humanity faces existential threats of a global nature. They are global in the sense that is not possible to deal with them unless we resort to global governance.

I want to think that there are better ways of obviating murder than to resort to capital punishment, but I realise that this may be wishful thinking on my part.

The kind of values for which I was supposed to kill, such as democracy and national independence, were better served, I thought, through non-violent action.

Actually, I defend the right to free abortion.